Title
User and item profile expansion for dealing with cold start problem.
Abstract
Recommender Systems (RS) are expected to suggest the accurate goods to the consumers. Cold start is the most important challenge for RSs. Recent hybrid RSs combine ConF and ColF. We introduce an ontological hybrid RS where the ontology has been employed in its ConF part while improving the ontology structure by its ColF part. In this paper, a new hybrid approach is proposed based on the combination of demographic similarity and cosine similarity between users in order to solve the cold start problem of new user type. Also, a new approach is proposed based on the combination of ontological similarity and cosine similarity between items in order to solve the cold start problem of new item type. The main idea of the proposed method is to expand user/item profiles based on different strategies to build higher-performing profiles for users/items. The proposed method has been evaluated on a real dataset and the experimentations indicate the proposed method has the better performance comparing with the state of the art RS methods, especially in the case of the cold start.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3233/JIFS-191225
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Recommender system,hybrid recommender system,ontology,profile expansion,KNN
Journal
38
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP4.0
1064-1246
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Payam Bahrani100.34
Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli260557.30
Hamid Parvin326341.94
Mitra Mirzarezaee451.79
Ahmad Keshavarz500.34
Hamid Alinejad-Rokny6697.17